January 19-25, 2009 - Week 2: Theme - Tagging and aggregation

This week introduces a thorough discussion of the key concepts tagging, RSS, folksonomies, and aggregation. Example implementations using these concepts for language learning are introduced, and techniques and tools for aggregation of content on the web are explored.  Participants are expected to tag and configure their blogs and other web artifacts associated with this course in a way that their content can be aggregated by other participants here.

• Content
  • Folksonomies: Tidying up tags, http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january06/guy/01guy.html (link suggested by colleagues in text chat at Tapped In, Nov. 2008, example of JIT learning)
  • David Weinberger and Andrew Keen debate Weinberger's thesis in All Things Miscellaneous, posted by Kevin Werbach July 9, 2007 in Conversations Hub: Supernova 2007: http://conversationhub.com/2007/07/09/video-david-weinberger-and-andrew-keen/
  • Writingmatrix project (teaser video and K-12 online and WiAOC materials)
    • http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com/
    • http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com/k12online2007
  • Google Reader
    • Nicholas Carr, What the Internet is doing to our brains: Is Google Making Us Stupid? July/August 2008 Atlantic, http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google
• Synchronous discussion
  • Something about WritingMatrix?  Doris Molero will talk about how working with blogs and other Web 2.0 tools and allowing different ways to express ideas have helped her students improve their multiliteracies.
• Projects
  • Explore and implement ways of aggregating each other's blogs and wikis, etc .
  • Explore and implement ways of aggregating content from other EVO courses.
  • Organize work on a wikibook using (if you wish) http://havingalookatmultiliteracies.pbwiki.com
  • Set up
    • Your RSS feed reader
    • Pageflakes or Netvibes or Protopages spaces
• Tools
  • RSS Feed readers
    • Google reader: http://www.google.com/reader
    • Bloglines: Bloglines 
  • Social Bookmarking
    • Diigo: http://diigo.com
    • Delicious: http://delicious.com/
      • MultiLit on Delicious: http://delicious.com/tag/evo2009mlit
  • Blog Aggregators
    • Technorati - Set up an RSS feed from your tag search
      • Search posts with any authority tagged evo2009mlit: http://technorati.com/tag/evo2009mlit?authority=n&language=en
      • Search posts with any authority tagged writingmatrix: http://technorati.com/tag/writingmatrix?authority=n&language=en
    • Google Blog Search: http://blogsearch.google.com
    • Pageflakes

      • http://www.pageflakes.com/vancestevens/13498617

    • Netvibes
      • Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netvibes
    • Protopage: http://www.protopage.com/
    • Twemes: http://twemes.com/evo2009mlit

(Twemes is or was an aggregator of Twitter #hash tags.  If you included a tag such as #evo2009mlit in your Twitter post it would aggregate to your Twemes URL such as that given above.  If you visit this URL now you will see the post where Vance set it up but despite tagging numerous Tweets with the required tag, no further postings have been aggregated.  I'm not sure why it's not working.  It used to, doesn't now.)

Diigo Webslide: Jennifer has created a Webslides show displaying many of the links above in Diigo

Visit this page: http://www.diigo.com/list/jenverschoor/evo2009mlitweek2

and click on the Webslides button